Blockchain-Based Family Finances

Improving Financial Literacy From Cradle Through College

Through our gamified platform, users will learn how to manage money while earning micro-rewards for their contributions, achievements, and good deeds.

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Join us in raising the next generation

of fiscally responsible citizens.

It takes a village!

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A Rewards-Based Hybrid Digital Wallet

Supporting both fiat and cryptocurrencies, Kidcoin’s hybrid digital wallet will offer families hands-on opportunities to learn, earn, spend, save, invest and give back to their community within a secure, vetted digital ecosystem.

Micro-Rewards and Micro-Scholarships

Scholarship contests incentivize users to do good deeds or strive for progress-based achievements

SMS and App alerts when users pre-qualify for new rewards

Primary and Secondary P2P Marketplace Ecosystem

Tokenization of Assets (ie. toys, clothes, tuition)

Age-appropriate, gated access ecosystem

Community vetted merchants & service providers

Fiat and/or cryptocurrency accepted

Transaction monitoring and controls

Education Savings: Advice and Fund Management

Education Savings Plan recommendations

Direct Deposit into paired 529 Plans

Compound Interest & tax-free earnings

College and future fund management services

Kidcoin Token Economy

Kidcoin is an Ethereum based token which will be able to be spent at community vetted, age appropriate vendors within the Kidcoin ecosystem. It will be stored in users’ hybrid digital wallets, alongside traditional banking assets, such as US dollars held in virtual checking and savings accounts.

Kidcoin will also be earned by users within our ecosystem through their participation in sponsor-backed contests and campaigns. Earning kidcoin will be as easy as providing the community – which includes brands, sponsors, and donors – with consumer insights, product reviews, and proof of progress based achievements or good deeds.

Kidcoin will be:

Secure and easy to use

Widely held and circulated

Operated under a structured coin release to prevent price speculation

Blockchain & Distributed Ledger

The motivations and advantages of Smart Contract and Blockchain technology implementation within Kidcoin ecosystem are many:

Token Model

500,000,000 Total Supply

Unsold tokens will be stored in Reserves and made available in the future to users in the community or through secondary token sale events.

Reserve & Founders’ stake subject to 1-YR lockup

New User Mining beyond Year 1 will release additional Tokens for the whole Community, including Pre-sale and ICO token participants.

Roadmap

January 2018

Initial Whitepaper Released

March 2018

Kidcoin Private Sale Opened

August 2018

New Website Launched

November 2018

Kidcoin Presale Round 1 Begins

December 2018

Kidcoin Presale Round 2 Begins

January 2019

MVP Released

February 2019

Kidcoin Token Sale Begins

February 2019

Hybrid Digital Wallet - Beta Release

February 2019

Family & Friends Module - Beta Release

March 2019

Micros Earnings Module - Beta Release

April 2019

Gated Access Marketplace Module - Beta Release

June 2019

Education Savings Plan Module - Beta Release

August 2019

Fund Management Module - Beta Release

October 2019

Secondary P2P Marketplace Module - Beta Release

Management and Advisors

200+ Years of Collective Fintech, MarCom and Startup Experience supported by a Global Design, Development & Marketing Agency in Operation for over 17 Years.

Arman Rousta

Founder & CEO

Arman is a serial entrepreneur. He is also the Founder and CEO of B.Labs Ventures and Blueliner Marketing, a venture builder and incubator providing capital, tech, strategic direction, marketing execution and operational support to industry disrupting startup tech and product development companies.

David Houle

Chief Brand Officer

David is a globally recognized futurist and keynote speaker, having delivered over 750 presentations across 6 continents in the last 9 years. David spent more than 20 years in media and entertainment industry and was part of the senior executive team that launched MTV, Nickelodeon, VH1 and CNN Headline News. He also won two Emmys as co-executive Producer for a nationally syndicated children’s program, “Energy Express” and was nominated for an Academy Award.

Zahra Khalid

Chief Financial Officer

Zahra is a seasoned business executive with over eight years of extensive experience in start-ups finance management. She has worked with multi-entity organizations and has been entrusted with increasing responsibilities in areas of cash flow management, cost control, financial analysis and planning. Her specialties include Financial analysis, Forecasting, Budgeting, Financial reporting, CF management, Raising capital, P & L analysis, BS analysis, Policy & procedure development, Team building, recruiting & hiring. Zahra is a Harvard graduate and currently resides in California with her husband and two kids. She enjoys yoga, dirt biking and reading.

Kirill Kirikov

Lead Blockchain / Solution Architect

12+ years dev experience, managing team (up to 30 specialists), released more than 100 apps. Worked on software for Chrysler & Ferrari. Teaching courses on iOS and Blockchain. Recent projects:

Max Semenchuk

Product Manager & UX Designer

Max is a partner at 4IRE labs, which builds mobile and blockchain solutions. He started his career as a freelance graphic designer 12 years ago and has worked in several tech incubators since. Max has also been a mentor for several accelerator programs and often speaks or writes on the topics of lean startups, product management and mobile apps.

Da’Von Robinson

Community Management

Da’Von has over 5 years of tech startup experience specializing in brand development, product management, and digital marketing. Most notably, he co-founded a digital gaming and brand building agency that focused on launching mobile games with celebrities. His flagship product was built with rapper and musical superstar Fetty Wap, which amassed over five million downloads in its first twelve months.

Advisors

Justin Litchfield, PhD

CTO at BTC Labs

Former CEO at Obsidian Software

Former Director of Engineering at OwnLocal

Babak Saleh, PhD

Machine Learning Scientist at AIG

Computer Vision and Graphics at Walt Disney Research

Learning Style and Infographics at Adobe Research

Carmine Vona

One of the founding fathers of SWIFT financial technology

Former CIO, Sr. Managing Director, and EVP of Bankers Trust

Board of Directors at MetroSoft

Board of Directors at SeaChange

Chris Henry

Former CEO of BlockSafe Technologies; a blockchain cyber-security firm

Vice President in global currency, commodities, and derivatives trading.

Vice President in global fixed-income, credit, and derivatives trading.

Associate in Global equity and derivatives trading.

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Silicon Valley
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London
March 10

New York
March 28

LOS ANGELES
APRIL 4-5

Dubai
April 16-17

London
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Los Angeles
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New York
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Dallas
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Hendra Soetjahja – Chief Technology Officer

Hendra Soetjahja

Hendra Soetjahja has been in working in the financial technology industry for over 20 years. Prior to joining 401kid, he founded Kilohana Capital and Kilohana Technologies and was a founding partner at New York Capital Advisors – mainly responsible for the design and development of its Adaptive Quantitative investment process and technology infrastructure that utilizes Artificial Intelligence methodologies.

Hendra was also a principal member of a team that managed five equity funds with collective asset under management of about $3.8 billion at J. W. Seligman. These funds were run by a combination of Quantitative and Fundamental analysis. He was solely responsible for the design and implementation of its quantitative statistical arbitrage computing process from the ground up. Hendra’s active involvement in the financial industry began with his tenure at Morgan Stanley implementing Equity derivatives pricing and greeks computation used by all its Options traders globally in New York, London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Singapore. At the time, Morgan Stanley Equity Derivatives desk was ranked first globally.

Hendra honed his understanding in Fixed Income while at General Re Financial Products. He was a Vice President in the firm’s Research and Systems Group whose members are well-respected in Wall Street and had won numerous awards. He also worked in Foreign Exchange as Assistant Vice President at Deutsche Bank. At the time, Deutsche Bank’s Foreign Exchange division was also ranked first globally. Hendra then became Vice President at Bear Stearns mainly responsible for Foreign Exchange Derivatives’ pricing and risk management applications.

Hendra gained his experience in high-performance algorithms for the Supercomputer at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. Eventually, he was awarded Fellowship from IBM Research to pursue PhD program in any university of his choice, tuition, fees, and living expenses fully paid. The IBM PhD Fellowship is a competitive, worldwide program that is awarded to 2 fellows annually. Award recipients are selected based on their overall potential for research excellence.

Hendra earned a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Northeastern University with concentration in computer architecture and Digital Signal Processing. He was inducted into Eta Kappa Nu, the honor society of Electrical Engineers. He became a PhD candidate in Artificial Intelligence at Columbia University and graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Masters in Computer Science from Columbia as well.

Arman Rousta – Founder & CEO

Arman Rousta

With 20+ years of startup and business ownership experience, Arman Rousta is a thought leader and serial entrepreneur that knows what his true genius is – the creation of new paradigms and business models. He most recently founded b.labs Ventures, a venture builder and incubator providing capital, tech, marketing, operations and strategic direction to industry disrupting startup tech and product development companies. As the CEO, Arman is responsible for strategic planning, general management, and software R&D, as well as the company’s expansion into new markets, such as Latin America, Europe and Asia.

Given his entrepreneurial success, Arman has been featured in media over the years, including Crain’ s NY, CNN Money, Wall Street Journal, NY Times, Time Magazine, Popular Mechanics, Barron’s, Inc. Magazine, American Banker, and American Baby. Arman has been featured on CNNfn and also as a speaker at national conferences such as the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors.

Arman is a strong believer in ethical and Conscious business practice, which emanates in b.labs’ operating principles and his leadership values, which are expressed through his business and personal blogs. Of particular significance to Arman is the betterment of opportunity for children. He Founded 401kid, an education funding advisory portal, in 2000 to serve this purpose. Through his work-life balance, Arman is dedicated to setting a positive example for how we can have success while being of service.

Prior to founding 401kid and b.labs, Arman spent five years as Co-Founder and COO of Exeter Technologies, a New York based automotive electronics firm. Arman was a contributing inventor to several Exeter products and guided the launch of the popular Park Zone in 1998 by devising the marketing strategy, a training program, and an international sales force responsible for $7.5 million in sales over a two- year period. Park-Zone was sold in 1999 to publicly-held manufacturing company Measurement Specialties, Inc (AMEX: MSS)

Arman holds degrees in Economics-Political Science and Psychology from Columbia University, where he led the Men’ s Soccer Team to an Ivy League Championship and attained Academic All-Ivy Honors. Arman is an avid athlete, reader, writer and philosopher, avidly studying and researching issues related to wellness, productivity and Spirituality. His ideas and views are expressed through numerous blogs and publications, including Blueliner, 401kid and his personal blog (armanrousta.com). He currently lives in Jersey City, NJ with his wife, Safia.